Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] and [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The they put the advert in and she underlined them .
2 And then er when they came back he says she says you know and I just says er and when she got out of the car , Dawn was out in the gar in the garden walking , and she said she just got out of the car and she looked over at Dawn like that took the kids in and she said I just says here you are , she said , come on Ashley over here , you stay and play in your back and your side of the er street from now on .
3 They send them a post card through and I thought it was about February , but Win reckons it 's the end of March their booster time .
4 Let's say erm we forget about all that ten pound early and you owed me a hundred pounds , right , and I say erm forget that , just , just take it away , forget it it 's gone , you 're a hundred pounds better off .
5 By the week 's end the proctologist was saying that it had been the best goddamned vacation he had ever taken , and as we passed the bunkering moorings near McIllvanney 's yard I saw him take Ellen aside and I guessed he was offering her a job .
6 We married 18 months later and I thought I knew him fairly well .
7 K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour .
8 Mollie put the album back and we made our way downstairs with our collection of chemicals .
9 and then we had an accident with our car door , who we took it up to erm , up to Carnthruft there and they did it for us and it , it , it 's just disappeared as a hole in n it ?
10 He took us to the pictures sometimes and we shared his intimate refuge from Mum .
11 Her thighs pushed his legs apart and she pressed herself against him .
12 The tears welled up into her eyes again and she dashed them away with an impatient hand .
13 With that he kicked his horse forward and we made our way down the trackway to the ornately carved gateway of Glastonbury Abbey .
14 ‘ We were talking about ransoms too and I said I would pay to save the life — ’
15 One of the crooks was picked up half-a-mile away and he led them to the tot who was sitting unhurt on a pedestrian walkway .
16 alright just shut up a minute , I 'm talking to ya , so she said afterwards oh I says that was good were n't it could n't even switch the machine on and she said it does n't matter does it , she said it 's not what happens its the way you deal with it , and I made a joke of it and I said to him oh this is good i n't it ? relax you 're in safe hands I ca n't even switch the machine on , but anyway I did it in the end and he was alright , and he said thank you very much , that was , you were very good , you were very kind , cos it is frightening and one thing I said to him do n't hold your breath , because people think when their having an E C G they 've got ta hold their breath for some reason , just lie there take a deep breath and do n't breathe again but you 've never had one so you would n't no , I 'm just going to mix this up
17 and there was a girl on and she said what is a bolster case and when I tried to explain to her she looked at me as if I lived in the ark and that was going back twenty years ago .
18 Cos she saw me putting the corn in and she decided she 'd try and get it by diving through the black net instead of going through the gate , like with a normal hen , you know , this one 's obviously brain dead or
19 I said that he could try to put the cube together and I left him with the pieces while I went to fetch some paper .
20 ‘ Thirty feet away and you saw nothing ? ’
21 He brushed the question aside and I realised it had been silly of me to ask it .
22 Anyway the next day Brocklesby is berthing and I can see the captain pointing at me , my hem was showing my petticoat was showing my hat off and afterwards I said to him erm what was so funny oh he said I was telling the Queen about you having those weeds for the rehearsal yesterday and she thought it was terribly funny
23 He , he found out cos he went for , to , for a check up and they took his blood pressure .
24 and erm he 's doing us a favour and some round to get Patch and er he said he 'll get lots That 's all ready for Simon now and he forgot his bag .
25 Oh yes I enjoyed it very much but erm we had American visitors around and we had one a Captain and I 'm afraid we all fell for him cos he seemed such a handsome man and he 'd been a hero in the war , and he was engaged to , then to the then president of America 's daughter , so they informed us but erm I do n't know whether it was the truth , that 's what they , they said but of course some of the , some of the things had to be cast , the bodies had to be cast and they were , they were I do n't know whether you 'd have heard of the Orritor
26 He turned to the girl again and she shook her head .
27 Her mouth parted in laughter again and he filled it with his lips , drawing so passionately on her that her whole body spasmed against him .
28 But the time the weather improved we had run out of bread again and I tried my hand at making some .
29 ‘ Steve gave me the opportunity to make a big play early and I did it . ’
30 I was on the dole in Sheffield once and I swore I 'd sweep streets rather than going back . ’
  Next page